The reviews for Ivanka Trump’s new advice book for working women are in — and they are pretty scathing.

Certainly, supporters of the first daughter and her father, President Donald Trump, will say that the criticism of “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success” is entirely partisan.

Ivanka Trump’s book “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success” at a Barnes and Nobel bookstore in New York. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

But just from a literary standpoint it’s hard to defend a book — exhorting women to achieve personal satisfaction and professional success — that is mostly composed of “artless jargon and inspirational quotes you might find by Googling ‘inspirational quotes,” as New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino writes.

As it happens, some of the people Ivanka quotes or references in her book have bristled at the association with her and her book. That includes Reshma Saujani, the founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code, who took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize her inclusion, saying: “Don’t use my story in #WomenWhoWork unless you are going to stop being #complicit.”

Ivanka was also lambasted for using a quote from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, which was originally about the psychological toll of slavery, for a chapter on time management for heiresses and wealthy upper managers.

That quality was “a reasonable fit” back when she published her first book “The Trump Card,” Tolentino writes. At the time, Ivanka was 28 and the daughter of a celebrity tycoon so her lack of self-awareness of her own privilege could be, well, expected and even shrugged off as entertaining on some level. It would be like reading self-help-type pablums from another oblivious reality TV celebrity — a Kardashian, for example — whose chief appeal is being fabulous and wealthy.

But now Ivanka’s father is president and the self-described multi-tasking mom has assumed a post in the White House. She is a senior advisor with a still undefined but wide-ranging portfolio, despite having no qualifications in government. And her father’s administration is carrying out policies on health care and other issues that could have serious consequences for people, including the women and families for whom Ivanka claims to advocate.

“Now that her father is the president,” Tolentino writes, “it feels downright perverse to watch her devote breathless attention to the self-actualization processes at work in the lives of wealthy women while studiously ignoring the political forces that shape even those lives.”

But that’s what Ivanka offers in her book, and her breathless attention to her own self-actualization process is evident in one particular anecdote. In it, she shares what she describes was as a particularly challenging time in her personal and professional life.

According to a passage from the book, excerpted in Us, Ivanka was in her early 20s and trying to decide whether to join her father’s business. This was in 2005 and the prep-school-educated Ivanka was one year out of college — she had already followed in her father’s footsteps and graduated from his alma mater the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.

She had worked for about a year for a Brooklyn-based real estate company and was looking for a new opportunity for career advancement — in her case by joining her father’s Trump Organization. Of course, unlike many other women, Ivanka didn’t have to kill herself trying to win such an opportunity.

Still, as Ivanka describes it, having to make this decision plunged her into something of an existential crisis.

“As the day approached, my mind swam with questions prompted by the unknown,” she said.

What worried her was not knowing whether she would thrive in “an environment where there were such high expectations, tied to the most personal of relationships.” She wondered, “What would happen if I performed poorly?”

What would happen indeed? It’s not as if she would ever need to worry about paying a mortgage or securing health care. And, really, would her father ever fire one of his kids?

In any case, Ivanka needed to clear her head, so she decided to get out in nature for a “life-changing journey.” She decided to take a hike.

But for the hike, she did what an heiress could afford. She went all the way to Patagonia

Maybe she even flew first class. And, no, she didn’t take herself off alone for a weeks-long solo expedition in the wilderness, a la Cheryl Strayed. Ivanka just went out for a day hike.

“Warm scarf wrapped tightly around my neck, I carried everything I needed on my back,” she wrote. “Around mile three of the eight- hour hike through Patagonia, I paused to take in the incredible view that stretched before me. I felt calm and grateful that morning, a contrast to the uneasiness I felt in New York, which had prompted this life-changing journey.”

That incredible view was enough to trigger Ivanka’s epiphany and to join her father’s company.

What followed was the inevitable advancement to Vice President in the Trump Organization and the opportunity to start her own fashion and life-style brand. Her father also made her a co-star on his reality TV show “The Apprentice,” which gave her a more high-profile platform from which to promote her company. This, in turn, eventually led to Woman Who Work, an initiative that may be less about women’s self-empowerment than a branding opportunity to sell more shoes.

Now, Ivanka is one of the most powerful people in U.S. government.

“Honor yourself by exploring the kind of life you deserve,” she tells her readers.

It seems that Ivanka’s trip to Patagonia served her well, as did her unique way of dealing with her existential crisis. If only many of her book’s possible readers could be so fortunate.

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